Members of an advisory committee are exasperated over the removal of a fence around Wiscasset’s Ancient Cemetery. The white wooden fence bordering Federal and Lincoln streets was removed by the…
Culture
Shasta. Airstream. Teardrop. Serro Scotty.
The Vintage Camper Jamboree drew them all – and more - to Shore Hills Campground on Route 27 in Boothbay for a seventh year.
The campers…
Carlo Albucci was a Florentine painter of curious happenings. He painted ironic, iconic, surreal and comic events sometimes all together, sometimes one at a time. In all ways they are fun to look…
Maine Art Gallery
Now the fun begins! There are just a few days left in which to browse the Maine Art Gallery’s online auction and make bids. The art has been donated by artists and collectors for the purpose of…
The Tall Ships Festival in Boothbay Harbor June 25-27 is happening through a partnership between Friends of Windjammer Days and Tall Ships of America.
It had been scheduled for 2020 by…
Maine State Music Theatre’s (MSMT) collaboration with Portland Stage continues with two co-productions this season – “The Everly Brothers” on July 23-25 at the Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin…
Live on stage this June
Live performances are continuing to ramp up at the historic Opera House in Boothbay Harbor as summer approaches. Early June sees Portland’s Seth Warner take to the stage, while national touring…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s newly-installed Members’ Show is now on display at One Townsend Avenue; Boothbay Harbor. In this particular exhibit, our area artists have created artwork that…
Mushroom expert Greg Marley will present an online workshop titled “Bewildering Bolete Mushrooms: So many, and challenging to learn” on Thursday, July 22, from 6:30-8 p.m.
The boletes are…
Two classes offered by the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset in June and July are filling up, but a few spaces are still available.
Adeline Godminc-Tronzo will teach a drawing workshop with…
Boothbay's Got Talent is returning for its fifth year with an added competition for our older local youth! Interested in competing in this fun and friendly competition? Come join the fun in this…
Kathleen Thornton and Linda Healy share the spotlight in a two-person show at the River Room at River Arts in Damariscotta on June 3-23. The artists are long-time friends, scientists by training…
The Maine Art Gallery’s first show of the season offers a fine exhibition of 103 works by 33 very talented artists living in Midcoast Maine. Curators Jorge Pena and Colleen Kearney-Graffam asked…
Pemaquid Art Gallery
The Pemaquid Group of Artists has juried nine new artists into membership. John Butke, a Boothbay resident is a locally known oil painter. Gwendolyn Evans of Walpole excels at watercolor painting…
A storm builds over the hills. The wind is moving the dark mass over the hills towards the viewer. There are three small structures capped in a bright orange in the meadow. One can imagine a…
“Limbo” - (R; 1 hour, 43 minutes) - A wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the results of their…
The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper has been notified of the cancellation of the Meadow Mall drive-in tomorrow night featuring “Raiders of the Lost Ark…
Wednesday, May 26 was day two of filming at Boothbay Railway Village for Director Christophe Herreros, Assistant Director Manon Pietrzak, Director of Photography Margot Besson, Sound Engineer…
When I sat down with Parisian filmmaker Christophe Herreros in Southport last week, he was concerned about the absence of fog since his arrival from Paris May 12. The absence of fog is usually not…
River Arts in Damariscotta invites the public to the opening of the juried show, “Land and Sea,” on Saturday, May 29 from 1-4 p.m. This will be a modified reception, without the customary food and…
Historic New England’s Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House will open for the season on Friday, June 4. The museums will be open for tours Friday – Sunday. Guided tours will be given on the…
In light of new federal and state guidelines, the Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta no longer limits the number of customers allowed in the shop at one time.
…
“Together Together” - (R; 1 hour, 30 minutes) - A hilarious and heartwarming comedy/drama. When young loner Anna is hired as the gestational surrogate for Matt, a single man in…
Schoonerfest, set to debut this summer, has landed a visit by the When and If. And the 1939, 63-foot vessel, which then-Col. George S. Patton had F.F. Pendleton of Wiscasset build,…
Capt. Harold Burnham, owner of the pinky schooner Ardelle, is once again offering Boothbay Region Historical Society a wonderful fundraising opportunity.
During Windjammer Days,…
Sunday, June 13
Unrehearsed. Audience members will be treated to “sitting in” on a concert with Ellis Paul and some of his favorite musicians. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., music starts at 7.…
Do you know that the Y has an award-winning signature arts program? It’s called Y-Arts, and it was founded in 1999 by Ginny Bishop. Y-Arts is now directed by her daughter, Emily Mirabile, who…
From Thursday, May 27, through Tuesday, June 29, Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor is showing the paper collages and select oils of Cranberry Island artist, Dorothy Eisner (1906 to 1984). For…
Historian Heather Cox Richardson, a summer visitor, whose roots in Bristol date back to colonial days, will participate in an online Community Conversation on "To Filibuster or Not to…
Harborside 1901 Bar and Grill will be Boothbay Harbor's newest addition to its evergrowing culinary scene. Local restaurateurs Ridvan Erman Celikel and Metehan Sahin are partnering with local…
The Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset opened its doors to visitors this year on May 15 with over 100 guests attending the festive events both inside the historic brick building and on the lawn…
This time of year daylight creeps into places around the region which stay shadowed for a large part of the year, especially in the evening. Parts of the Harbor become visible, so to speak, as we…
These artists spent the day cleaning, gardening, and hanging artwork in anticipation of the Saltwater Artists Gallery, located at 3056 Bristol Road/Route130 in New Harbor, opening on Friday, May…
A crew from Boothbay Harbor’s Bristol Marine recently volunteered their time at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG), lending their considerable expertise to the construction of the Gardens’…
Helen Meserve of the Harbor Theater reported a great community event at the Meadow Mall on Saturday night.
Approximately 200 people came out to the pop-up drive in. …
At the present time, no concessions are on sale, no outside food or drink allowed, and masks must be worn at all times inside Lincoln Theater. All tickets must be purchased in advance through our…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) gallery will feature Maine artists Maryjane Johnston and Tanja Kunz in a show titled “Light, Line, Form,” with an opening event at CCAC on Friday, May 28.…
River Arts in Damariscotta features landscape paintings by midcoast artist, Ramone Hanley-Warren. Her solo show titled “Studio Work; Drawn to Solace” opened May 13 and runs until June 2. Working…
The “Art at the Grill” program is a series of art exhibits that showcase a variety of Maine artists at the Damariscotta River Grill. To celebrate and promote the exhibiting artists, the Grill …
In Part 5 of the DaPonte Quartet’s live online series, the quartet will play Stravinsky, “Three Pieces for String Quartet,” premiering Saturday, May 15 at onstage.daponte.org.
Filmed at…
The clay’s the thing! Some gotta throw, some gotta mold … just ask the artists at the Midcoast Pottery Co-op. The Co-op members, Annette Stormont, Clark Griffith, Monica Tan and Mitchell…
Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Concertmaster Amy Sims, violin, and Vytas Baksys on piano, bring an evening of Mozart, Stravinsky, William Grant Still and Johannes Brahms to the Opera…
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset
An exhibit by members of the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset marks the gallery’s opening for the first time in over a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
An outdoor, opening reception…
Ralph Smith has cooked up another business venture to join his Mine Oyster and Boat House Bistro restaurants. Smith bought Hawke Rentals from Leila Hawke, who sold the business before moving to…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is pleased to welcome Professor Aram Calhoun from the University of Maine for an online lecture on Thursday, May 20 at 6 p.m. Join us to learn about vernal pools,…
Ever notice that usually the most successful children’s programming speaks just as well to adults? Sesame Street is a perfect example. This week you can find out why.
“The Truffle…
Heartwood Theater will soon present a free online, fully-produced film production of Henrik Ibsens’ “Rosmersholm.”
Originally on the calendar for live performance last spring, the play had…
Wiscasset selectmen
Selectmen and other residents debated Tuesday night over a proposed plaque honoring a poet-civil rights advocate who died in a 1938 Wiscasset car-train crash. The board voted 3-2 to have resident…
